Once again, I come up with another bottle gourd recipe and I don't regret it at all! Usually bottle gourd is a winter crop in Bangladesh. However, in Denmark it is always available, mostly due to importation in summer from Southern Italy or other warmer countries in Europe. I might have mentioned in one of …
Continue reading Bottle Gourd Stir Fry – Lau Bhaji (লাউ ভাজি)
I personally hate the name 'gourd.' I mean any vegetable name that ends with 'gourd', makes me almost cry. Well, my personal feelings for the name gourd doesn't effect anything, however just for your knowledge, gourd usually refers to all the veggies that belongs to Cucurbitaceae family, same family where cucumber belongs. Basically, Pointed Gourd …
Continue reading Fried Pointed Gourd – Potol Bhaja (পটল ভাজা )
Exactly a year ago I came back to Vegan Bangla by writing one of my father's favorite recipe to commemorating him. The recipe was Bitter gourd stir fry. After only 10 days, it will be three years when COVID-19 was announced pandemic. I don't know how the dates fell so closely, may be it is …
Happy New Year 2023 and Happy Veganuary! Being vegan in January has become a recent trend. I guess everything is about following trend. Anyway, with or without being a part of the recent trend, I am writing today my first recipe of 2023. It is a recipe of green papaya or pepe (পেঁপে ) as …
Continue reading Green Papaya Stir Fry – Kacha Pepe Bhaji (কাঁচা পেঁপে ভাজি)
Turnip was never my favorite vegetable. Probably because I hadn't had any good preparation of it. However, living in Denmark made me awfully missing all the Bangladeshi vegetable so whenever I get something similar to Bangladeshi veggies, I try them without hesitation. So today I will share turnip recipe in Bangladeshi way. Jump to recipe …
Continue reading Turnip Stir Fry – Shalgom Bhaji (শালগম ভাজি)
This year 2022, I have grew a few varieties of tomato plants in my balcony. Due to change of the direction of sun light, the harvest was not enough as expected but it was okay. Few days ago, me and my girl Pompom (look how cute she is!) picked up some tomatoes from the balcony …
Continue reading Green Tomato Stir Fry – Kacha Tomator Bhaji (কাঁচা টমেটোর ভাজি)
It has been more than a year since I wrote my last recipe blog! I have been postponing it many times already and it took me so much courage to start writing again. Whenever I was thinking to start over again, I don't know, something like guilt or shame overcast my mind. However, I am …
Continue reading Bitter Gourd Fry – Korolla Bhaji (করল্লা ভাজি)
Radish is a root vegetable that has really a pungent and not very delicate smell, that's why as a kid, I really hated that veggie! Later I have seen, especially in Europe that radish can be pretty small and cute to eat as a salad and it is actually a very delicious veggie. In Bangladesh, …
Okra, Ladies Finger, Bhendi, Dheros, (scientific name: Abelmoschus esculentus)...no matter what you call it, Okra is one of the most common vegetable in South Asia! In Bangladesh, we call it Dherosh (ঢেঁড়স), in some areas, its called Bhendi (ভেন্ডি)। I really like to know who came up with the name "Ladies Finger." Is it because …
Continue reading Love Story of Okras 2 – Dherosh Bhaji 2 (ঢেঁড়স ভাজি ২)
Wax gourd belongs to tropical vegetable family. Wax gourd has many names, like ash gourd,white gourd, winter gourd, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, winter melon, but mainly this veggies is known for its whitish, waxy coat which gives the distinctive look. I was not very fond of the taste of the wax gourd as a child, …
Continue reading Wax Gourd Stir Fry – Chal Kumra Bhaji (চাল কুমড়া ভাজি)
Hyancinth bean (Lablab purpureus) is one of the most adored vegetable in Bangladesh. It is dark green, half moon, flat in shape, even sometimes you can find them in dark purple color. We call it Sheem (শীম) in Bangla and there are many awesome vegan recipes with this vegetables, for example, spread (bhorrta), sheem - …
Continue reading Hyacinth Bean Stir Fry – Sheem Alu Bhaji (শিম আলু ভাজি)
The name sounds weird - either Chichinga or Snake gourd. It looks weird too! But it does not mean this tropical vegetable taste weird. Chichinga taste in between cucumber and bottle gourd, but it has crunchier texture than cucumber. As this grow mainly in tropical areas, no wonder I hardly find it in Denmark. Luckily …
Continue reading Snake Gourd Stir Fry – Chichinga Bhaji (চিচিঙ্গা ভাজি)
Okra, Ladies Finger, Bhendi, Dheros, (scientific name: Abelmoschus esculentus)...no matter what you call it, Okra is one of the common vegetable in South Asia! In Bangladesh, we call it Dherosh (ঢেঁড়স), in some areas, its called Bhendi (ভেন্ডি)। I really like to know who came up with the name "Ladies Finger." Is it because its …
Continue reading Love Story of Okras! – Dherosh Bhaji (ঢেঁড়স ভাজি)
There has been few similar recipes in my blog, for example, today's recipe with long bean (Vigna unguiculata) and potato stir fry is very similar to Alu Bhaji - Potato stir fry recipe. But it does not make today's recipe any less tastier! Long bean, mostly known as Chinese long bean is full of nutrients …
Continue reading Long Bean Potato Stir Fry – Borboti Alu Bhaji (বরবটি আলু ভাজি)
Who does not like potato? You must have eaten potatoes in hundred of different ways, but today's potato stir fried recipe is very simple and very authentic Bangladeshi recipe, which is mostly known as Alu Bhaji (Alu=Potato, Bhaji = Stir fry). However, in Bangladesh, this is mostly eaten in breakfast with hand made flat bread …
I will most probably write thousands of recipes of aubergine! Probably it is my most favorite vegetable, but aubergine has definitely the amazing ability to turn into a delicious dish, so it is of course not my fault to use it often for my vegan palate! It is pretty simple to make aubergine fry or …
It's time to share a different kind of cooking style with you. We call it Bhaji, which means stir frying of veggies with spices and condiments. There's no need to make gravy for this kind of Bhaji cooking, it is mostly dry and kind of a side dish to rice but it takes less time …
Continue reading Cauliflower Potato Stir Fry – Phulkopi Alu Bhaji (ফুলকপি আলু ভাজি)
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